Ben Greenfield says healthy weight loss is 1–2 pounds per week, which means 10 pounds takes about five to ten weeks depending on your calorie deficit. The first week often drops 5–10 pounds, but that's mostly water and glycogen, not fat.
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1–2 pounds per week.
About 500 fewer calories per day.
About 1,000 fewer calories per day.
Often anywhere from 5 to 10 pounds in one week (mostly glycogen and water).
Up to four times its weight in water.
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Hi, my name is Ben from BenGreenfieldFitness.com and this is question number 10 in our top 10 series on exercise, nutrition and lifestyle tips for human performance and fat loss. Question number 10 comes from listener Gary, and he says, how long does it take to lose 10 pounds? That is a question that I do get a lot. How long to lose X number of pounds? Healthy rate of weight loss is one to two pounds per week.
Okay.
Ideally, if you're eating a diet that doesn't have a lot of food allergy triggers in it, or things that are.
Going to contribute to inflammation within your body, like high amount of sugars, starches, things of that nature, if you're eating.
500 fewer calories than you're burning, you.
Can burn about a pound of fat a week.
If you're burning 1,000 calories fewer than.
You'Re consuming, if you're burning 1,000 calories more than you're consuming, you can burn about 2 pounds of fat a week.
When you first start into a fat loss or weight loss program, especially if.
It'S accompanied by a diet, then you can often lose anywhere from five to ten pounds in one week. And then you'll get really discouraged because.
From that point on, you might lose.
A half pound, one pound, one and a half or two pounds a week.
But that first initial sharp drop in.
Your weight in your body fat, well, it's not really in your body fat, but in your weight is typically storage carbohydrate and water. Your body dumps a lot of that once you start working out, because it.
Will burn through the storage carbohydrate before.
It decides to start accessing a lot.
Of those fat reserves.
And when you're sweating, when you're working out, when you're perspiring, you'll also burn.
Through a lot of water.
You also have to consider the fact that that storage carbohydrate carries up to four times its weight in.
And so that's why I see a lot of people start a program, lose a bunch of weight, and they get.
Really discouraged and they gain it all back.
You got to stand it for the.
Long term because that is really what it takes to tap those fat reserves. So as far as the length of.
Time it would take you to lose 10 pounds, I would say shoot for.
Five weeks, and depending on how often you exercise and how good your diet.
